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> The whole region was undergoing transition from developing to highly developed From the said region. This is objectively no. Singapore and Korea are the onl
by ergocoder 3y ago
> The whole region was undergoing transition from developing to highly developed
From the said region. This is objectively no.
Singapore and Korea are the only twos. Korea is not even in the region.
Other countries are rampant with corruptions, political problems, and incompetence. Think of Trump and multiply it by 10. My prediction is that Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines , Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, and etc. will never become developed. These countries are too big to change and the legacy systems (that are insanely corrupted) are too powerful.
Take Thailand for example. It's objectively bad to have military run the country. Apart from corruption, they are just incompentent; it's well known and blatant. Yet almost half of the country supports a military government.
- thriftwy 3y agoSingapore's population was mostly Chinese with some europeans, so it was way closer to South Korea culturally than to Cambodia.
- kawaiikouhai 3y agoUh... No. Singapore's second largest native population are Malays then Indians, which IIRC are 13% and 7% of the population as of 2024. I do not think this was much different historically. Europeans are not very present in Singaporean society.
- thriftwy 3y agoI believe that you are super wrong and Europeans were always present in Singapore in large numbers, even if they do not show up in citizenship numbers. They did before WWII and they certainly do now. Whereas these 20% non-Chinese cannot turn a Chinese culture country to something else, hence the South Korean / Taiwanese / Hong Kong trajectory.